Painterly Architectonics
1918 · Oil on canvas · Dallas Museum of Art
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Lyubov Popova (1889–1924)
- Year
- 1918
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Collection
- Dallas Museum of Art
- Movement
- Constructivism
Overlapping planes in black, deep red, olive green, ochre-brown and white are stacked at angles across a tall canvas, some flat and solid, others shading softly into one another, so that they seem to tilt in and out of space. The paint is thick, and the white ground is rough and scumbled. Lyubov Popova made it in Moscow in 1918, late in her Painterly Architectonics series, begun in 1916, in which she built compositions from interlocking coloured planes; the series owes much to Malevich's Suprematism but is heavier, more textured and more concerned with construction than with weightless space. She had studied in Paris in 1912–13 and taken part in the radical Russian exhibitions of 1915 and 1916. After the Revolution she turned to textile, stage and graphic design, and she died of scarlet fever in 1924. The painting is in the Dallas Museum of Art.
This full-bleed edition prints the work edge to edge from a high-resolution scan of the original, very slightly cropped (a few percent at most) to fit the sheet. The gallery edition shows the whole work, uncropped. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Tilted planes of black, deep red, olive and ochre on a rough white ground, for a study, home office or living room at 24×36 in black. A white, rust or warm grey wall; it pairs with Malevich's Suprematism.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Constructivism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1918)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- living room, study or library, home office, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×36. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Printed edge to edge: a slim black or natural wood frame right to the image, or let the canvas wrap do the framing. Also available gallery-wrapped on canvas, ready to hang with no frame.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
